![]() ![]() It has also confirmed that users will be able to import lists from Wunderlist straight into To Do, however, a Microsoft Account is needed to use the app. As technology continues to advance, we can’t guarantee that Wunderlist will continue to work as it should, or as we’d like it to.”Īlong with confirming that the Wunderlist services will close in May 2020, the company is also recommending current users switch over to its To Do app. The good thing is that you have many options to switch from Wunderlist. There is an easy way to export all of your to-do list items and task to another application. It is bad news for the Wunderlist lovers, as now, they will have to shift to another to-do list app. When we first announced Microsoft To-Do, we also announced that Wunderlist would. It is announced that the Wunderlist app will shut down on 6 th May 2020. We’ve stopped releasing new features and big updates to Wunderlist, so as the app ages it’s become more difficult to maintain. Microsoft revealed today that it will finally shut down the Wunderlist apps and service, on May 6, 2020. In a blog post making this announcement, Microsoft’s Wunderlist team explains: “We’ve been working tirelessly to ensure our new app, Microsoft To Do, feels like a new home for your lists. The company has said that as of today, it’s no longer accepting new sign-ups for Wunderlist in preparation for the app’s closure. The company had originally acquired Wunderlist more than four years ago, and has spent the past couple of years in building To Do app. ![]() ![]() While we wait for Microsoft to get its act together and add features to To-Do that give it parity to other popular task apps, the light is slowly fading on the ability to salvage any of the momentum from acquiring Wunderlist when To-Do is finally ready.Microsoft has confirmed its plan to shut down Wunderlist app on May 6th, 2020. Existing users will be unable to use the app from May 6th, except to export their lists to its official successor, Microsoft To Do. In this case, the one year anniversary of To-Do happens in about four weeks which means we may have another year of this waffling between the two services. When I was in graduate school, I had a professor tell me that the best way to determine the true length of an IT project is to take your best estimate and multiply it by two. The project as it stands right now is in some sort of migration-hell that has essentially destroyed the fan-base for Wunderlist thanks to missed deadlines and with To-Do being half-baked Microsoft has royally botched this acquisition and transition between platforms. The issue? Wunderlist API runs on AWS and is in the process of being ported to Azure but since it needs to include Exchange/Office integration, this port is taking much longer than initially expected. You’ll still be able to use Wunderlist until then, though Microsoft is cutting off new signups. Thanks to a few tweets by Christian Reber, translated by, we now have a better understanding of what happened behind the scenes but still no timeline for the app being turned off.Īccording to his tweets, the initial plan was to introduce To-Do and stop development of Wunderlist but that hasn’t gone according to plan. Microsoft said Monday that it plans to shut down its Wunderlist to-do list service on May 6, 2020. But, as time passed, Microsoft said that Wunderlist would live-on a bit longer but that the plan was to still transition over to To-Do when the app was ready.Īs I have often wondered out loud, the transition is taking a lot longer than many anticipated, the messaging about the future of Wunderlist is confusing, and many users didn’t know what to expect or when Wunderlist will actually be shut down. In an announcement published last night, Microsoft confirmed plans to shut down Wunderlist on the 6th of May 2020, at which point, users will need to either import their lists to the To-Do app. ![]() When Microsoft bought Wunderlist, the company announced that the app would eventually be shut down and that To-Do would take its place. ![]()
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